Plextor's NGFF SSD to Deliver Speeds of Up To 700 MB/s
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The upcoming Solid State Drive is intended for the next generation of ultrabooks.
Plextor's upcoming NGFF SSD measures just 42 x 22 mm (L x W) and is based on a Marvell 88SS9189 processor and triple-level cell (TLC) NAND flash memory. The drive features a PCI-Express 2.0 x2 interface and is capable of delivering read speeds of up to 700 MB/s and write speeds of up to 550 MB, with a maximum 4K random write performance of 100,000 IOPS.
The drives will be available in 128 GB and 256 GB with 245 MB and 512 MB DDR3 DRAM caches, respectively, and is expected to be supplied to OEMs in time for the release of next-generation Ultrabooks based on Intel's Haswell range of processors.
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Not so much recognized like Samsung, OCZ, Crucial etc, but very solid quality.
They were recognized at one point for their CD & DVD burners respecitively, but they sat on their laurels and other companies surpassed them, one being LG.
Cache Size != Write speed
Plextor optical drives are actually manufactured by Lite-On. Very few companies make CD/DVD drives anymore due to the low cost and negligible profit margins.
i wanted it done yesterday, even though i just thought of it right now!
anything short of that is not over kill
Now they are, but what I was mentioning was when they made the drives themselves!
Yep a few years ago they where about the best you could get for CD/DVD burners.
The reason why you see the speeds of most SSD's topping out at 550-560MB/s is the sata port bottlenecking.
If you get rid of the sata interface and replace it with a direct pci-e interface, you will get faster speeds. In the case of pci-e x2, you get 1000MB/s which will effectively be lower when you consider the management overhead just like with sata III offering 600MB/s but in the real world, you get about 550MB/s
PCIe 2.0 x2 (although x2 is kinda weird for PCIe and PCIe 3.0 x1 or PCIe 1.0 x4 would be used much more often) can get you very close to 1GB/s and SATA3's failure to reach 600MB/s isn't because of any "management" for it, at least not directly. We could make a set of SATA 6Gb/s hardware/software that can reach effectively 600MB/s (not that 550MB/s isn't already pretty close, it is, after all, less than 10% lower) if we wanted to.